Mechanical Vibration: Analysis, Uncertainties and Control - Third edition

摘要

T Shis substantial text - this 3rd edition runs to some 992 pages - is aimed at both undergraduate and postgraduate engineering courses in vibrations. It will also provide a useful reference for practicing engineers. There are many texts for this audience, of course, but this book stands out in a number of ways. These arise from the authors desire to stamp their individuality on the book. First is the material covered. Apart from the fundamentals of vibration of single degree of freedom (SDOF), multiple degree of freedom (MDOF) and continuous systems, there are substantial additional chapters and sections on the responses of such systems to random excitation and on active vibration control. These -graduate topics perhaps - are written with an appropriate length and depth so that the majority of vibration engineers will get all they require without the need to refer to specialist texts. Secondly, the book is more enjoyable to read than most. It contains numerous biographical summaries of the lives and achievements of famous people in the field, footnotes providing background information, sometimes from quite diverse branches of science, and material describing the practical problems faced by the engineer, with descriptions and pictures of applications. All these make the text readable. Finally the prose is written in a somewhat informal and often amusing style, in the first person, which also improves its readability, although perhaps a bit verbose in places.